| The Ceramics of Raquira, Colombia: Gender, Work, and Economic Change |  | Author: Ronald J. Duncan
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Category: Book
Buy New: $59.95
Sales Rank: 2371239
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0813016150
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.48663986137
EAN: 9780813016153
Publication Date: November 30, 1998
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Product Description
Ronald Duncan explores the ways that male gender power combined with capitalism to bring about sweeping economic changes and the transformation of a centuries-old tradition of women's ceramics in the Andes. In the village of Raquira, Colombia, two pottery-making styles coexist: while devoting time to domestic tasks, women make traditional cooking pots and water jugs in the same style and with the same hand-working techniques they've used since before the time of Columbus; in contrast, men -- working full-time in shops established in the last 50 years -- mass-produce planters and other ware, using molds and potter's wheels in a style of primarily Spanish origin. Throughout the community, men control capital and have greater mobility in marketing their products; many women have become assistants to their husbands. Along with discussion of this contrast between cultures, the book raises the issue of whether indigenous pottery in Raquira -- highly prized by collectors -- will completely disappear in the next century. Filling a gap in village ethnography, this is the first major publication in English on the traditional ceramics of Colombia. It offers both a history of the craft, illustrated with 40 photographs, and a compelling discussion of how individuals, families, and communities respond to historical, economic, and personal change.
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